Bulletstorm (PS3/PS4, Xbox 360/Xbox One, Switch, PC, VR)

Really, this recommendation could stop at the fact that the first trailer was set to Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Wish’. As we are all aware by now, Nine Inch Nails in a trailer is cruise control for cool. Thankfully, the folks at People Can Fly were kind enough to actually make a game worthy of the honor.

At a time when every shooter was trying to be Gears of War, People Can Fly went, “Okay, but what if we used colors other than brown and gray, gave the player points based on how hilariously they killed their enemies, and the script read like we did one of those coma dream seasons of Archer as an FPS?” The result is not just one of the most hilariously brutal shooters ever made, but also one of the most brutally hilarious scripts ever written for this kind of game, a veritable treasure trove of bespoke profane turns of phrase from the minds of absolute maniacs, and bless it for existing. Many will die having never taken a helicopter and mowed down an entire race of mutants with a minigun while yelling, “Here comes Butterdick Jones and his Heavenly Asshole Machine,” but can it be said that they ever truly lived?